Elizabeth Darling b. c.10 November 1798

Also known as Eliza Darling, Elizabeth Dumaresq, Eliza Dumaresq, E. Darling
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Designer
Wife of the Governor New South Wales 1825/1831 Major-General Ralph Darling. She made watercolours and drawings as well as designs for public buildings.

Citations

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art, 2 vols’, facsimile reprint, 1930.

  • Fletcher, Brian H. (1982), 'Elizabeth Darling: Colonial benefactress and Governor’s Lady’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 67, March.

  • Kerr, J. and Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Dumaresq Papers’, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart.

  • Information sourced from Maidment, Ian.

  • Fletcher, Brian H. (1992), ''Elizabeth (Eliza) Darling’, The Dictionary of Australian Artists, (ed.) Joan Kerr’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1829), Sydney Gazette, 28-30 July.

  • 'Dumaresq Papers’, Private collection.

See also

  • 'Heritage: section 2, plate 97'.
  • 'Cornelia Asleep on the Floor (Mauritius) 1821, watercolour on paper. Dumaresq Papers, AOT'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book